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ABC Staff Walk Out for First Time in 20 Years Over Pay and AI Protections
Close to 1,000 ABC workers struck for 24 hours after rejecting a 10% pay offer that fails to match inflation. Unions want safeguards against AI replacing journalists.
Geopolitics
RBA Hikes Cash Rate to 4.10% as Bullock Warns of Recession Risk
The second rate rise of 2026 passed by a single vote, with the Governor pointing to sticky inflation and oil price shocks.
Geopolitics
NVIDIA Sees $1 Trillion in AI Chip Orders Through 2027
Jensen Huang doubles the forecast at GTC 2026 as hyperscalers scramble for Blackwell and Rubin GPUs.
Geopolitics
Cory Booker Wants to Talk About Congress's War Powers Problem. Not Just Trump's.
A senator's resolution exposes 53 years of abdication. Both parties have enabled it.
Geopolitics
Selling Your Identity to Train AI: The Gig Economy's Unsettling Trade
People in developing countries are earning a few dollars filming their walks and selling their phone calls. They're signing away rights to their biometric identity forever.
Geopolitics
The $13.6 Million Payday That Made Mark Barnaba Australia's Highest-Paid Director
How a clever options grant at a UK explorer, a transformative acquisition, and the ASX's own governance rules combined to produce a payout most executives can only dream of.
Geopolitics
ASIC v Star: Federal Court Ruling Rewrites the Rules for Australian Directors
Justice Lee's ruling against Star's executives carries a message for every Australian boardroom: ignorance of risk is no longer a defence.
Work
Slovenia Votes in Election Marked by Anti-Romany Rhetoric From Both Sides
Neither the centre-left incumbent nor the populist challenger has offered the country's 12,000 Roma people a reason for optimism. Activists say both parties have scapegoated Europe's most marginalised minority.
Geopolitics
The Heretic of Silicon Valley
When a tech CEO calls for government regulation of his own industry, it tells us something about where the reckoning has arrived.
Work
DoorDash Now Pays Couriers to Film Themselves Training AI
The new 'Tasks' app turns 8 million gig workers into data collectors for robotics companies. The legal questions about who owns that footage are only beginning.
AI
Apple's M5 Math: The Unit Economics of a $100 Price Hike
The new MacBook Air isn't just faster. It's a calculated segmentation shift that forces users to pay for storage they might not want.
Geopolitics
Melbourne's Water Storage Falls 11% in a Year as City Drinks Through Reserves
Storages sit at 69.6%, down more than 200 billion litres from last year. Conditions mirror the Millennium Drought. Restrictions could return by next summer.